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...and his later books deal with the greed for wealth, position, and power in William’s Germany. Mann’s merciless portrait of a tyrannical provincial schoolmaster,
Professor Unrat (1905;
Small Town Tyrant), became widely known through its film version
Der blaue Engel (1928;
The Blue Angel). His
Kaiserreich trilogy—consisting of
Die Armen (1917;...

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